Was I just so  naive to think that our friendship could have survived the test of time?  Was I just stupid enough to believe that she's actually normal?
It's  upsetting to think that the friendship to which I wrote so many poems  as a teenager is not as invincible as once thought.
Do I think I am  perfect? No! Of course not!
Do I have some extent of ADD? Probably. I  do get distracted fairly easily. And I do tend to multitask incessantly  and almost obsessively.
But have I ever been careless about our  friendship?! Who?! Me?! I don't think so.
I never listen without  interrupting, she says. I never listen without interrupting? I have been  accused of not listening attentively my whole entire life. And then I  decided to stop and think through every time I have been accused of not  listening properly.
Usually the following scenarios:
a) She's  pouring her heart out to me right after church, when all my friends,  including the guy I am trying to impress are coming out of the  sanctuary. So I'm not listening to her bc I am too busy trying to talk  to everyone else. Well, maybe, and just maybe, the time for  confidentiality is not quite right.
b) We are spending time together,  each one of us with a number of things we each want to share. She gets  to do the whole talking - about herself and myself, for about 2 hours.  So I eventually stop listening, bc I am tired of not having a chance to  say anything I need to say. How many times have I gotten back home after  spending a day together, feeling that I just served as a shoulder to  cry, and no one really cared to find out about my own feelings.  "Friendship is a two-way road," she says. Maybe she should take her own  advice. Just maybe.
From day one when our friendship began, I was  always the crying-shoulder. It was always about her pouring her feelings  out, or should I say dumping her feelings out on me.
All through  our entire lives it's been like that. She talks, and talks, and talks.  And when she's done, she'd talk some more. She was never really done  talking. She'd talk even when it was my turn to do the talking. On MY  WEDDING PREP. Did she ever even bother to hear what I wanted to do? No.  Of course not! She had to talk it through - and determine how I should  want my wedding to be.
"Of course I am upset that you have to  teach!Why did you say 'hello' if you had no time to talk?"
No  surprise she is upset! She is upset that I am not there to hear her  cries. Because, really, this is the first person ever to tell me she's  upset because I say hello when I have no time to chat!!!!
This is  just ridiculous. No, not just annoying - ridiculous!
You know, maybe,  and just maybe, she's just really upset with the fact that her  engagement is over. Maybe, and just maybe, she's saying that because she  really does not know what to do, or who to blame for having lost all  the hope she had built up of building a life together with that man.  Maybe she does not really mean the things she said.
So I will wait. I  will wait and not say anything anymore so things don't get any worse.  When she is ready, if she is ever ready, she will talk to me as if  nothing had ever happened.
If she is never ready, than maybe our  friendship was never really worth that much to start with. And I was  really just so naive to think that time, distance, and men could never  destroy what we had together.
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Was I so naive?
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